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Nabokov : The Mystery of Literary Structures by Leona Toker; National Endowment for the Humanities Open Book Program is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Nabokov : The Mystery of Literary Structures about?

Vladimir Nabokov described the literature course he taught at Cornell as "a kind of detective investigation of the mystery of literary structures." Leona Toker here pursues a similar investigation of the enigmatic structures of Nabokov's own fiction. According to Toker, most previous critics stressed either Nabokov’s concern with form or the humanistic side of his works, but rarely if ever the two together. In sensitive and revealing readings of ten novels, Toker demonstrates that the need to reconcile the human element with aesthetic or metaphysical pursuits is a constant theme of Nabokov’s and that the tension between technique and content is itself a key to his fiction. Written with verve and precision, Toker’s book begins with Pnin and follows the circular pattern that is one of her subject’s own favored devices.

Who reads Nabokov : The Mystery of Literary Structures?

Author

Leona Toker; National Endowment for the Humanities Open Book Program

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801422119

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Memoir, Literary Fiction

Updated

2026-03-24